POSSESSION

POSSESSION

It is strange how unwilling we are to accept the truth that we have to live of the Spirit of God. Though in a way it is not strange, because if it is accepted there is no place for man in the flesh. If we had a true sense of the utter wretchedness of man before God, there would be a known relief in judging oneself as apart in spirit from all that one is apart from when in the Spirit. People are often looking for the results of looking, instead of being occupied with Him who effects the results. Not watching for the Lord at your right hand, but setting the Lord always before you, and then He is sure to be at your right hand.

Others are trying to imitate the actions and ways of Christ, but if their eyes were on Him they would be empowered to act as He would act if He were in their place.

If I see Him only in His walk down here, I am like one surveying a beautiful property without the sense that it is mine, for there is no title to possession except in resurrection; and there the unentitled one gets no place but the entitled One is also my title, and my power to enter on and to possess. Then I devote myself to study all the beauties and gain of the property, in ^[p. 163] a way only known to a possessor. The possessor expresses naturally what he is possessor of. The spectator only admires to satisfy his conscience. But one who has reached his desired object is detained and controlled, no longer restless or dissatisfied - he ‘dwells’, ‘possesses’ the object of his desire.